KIWI-born James McDonald excelled on Michael Bell's Big Orange as he made all the running for the second successive year in the Group 2 Princess of Wales's Arqana Racing Club Stakes at Newmarket.

McDonald, who is one of Godolphin's retained riders in Australia, had shone when coming from off the pace on Antiquarium in the Northumberland Plate and was allowed to set his own fractions on this occasion.